Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 26, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Credit Suisse collapse obfuscated Parreaux, Thiébaud & Partners scandal

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

2. Government Sites That Use Centralised CAs Are Still Remotely Controlled by MElon and GAFAM at the Oval Office

   Even governments outside the US

3. Eternal Vigilance

   I too received more death threats than I can recall over the years

4. Asking Journalists to Pay for Merely Reporting Violent Abuse Against Women (and Telling Them to Kill Themselves)

   As regular readers are likely aware by now, for material we published years ago some likely broke man without a proper job (except in a company made up or invented by him) wants money

5. Judgment translated to English in FINMA & Debian trademark fiasco

   Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

6. The Brigading (in Social Control Media) Did Not Silence the Creator of GNU/Linux

   there are no impending talks at the moment

   New

7. Links 25/02/2025: US Backs BRICS at UN, Ukraine's Defence Enters 4th Year

   Links for the day

8. Gemini Links 25/02/2025: Marginalia and LOWWIRE

   Links for the day

9. New Richard Stallman Interview Published by Free University of Bozen-Bolzano a Day After His Talk There

   We're not seeing any difficult or controversial questions

10. The Musk Slipped, Countries Need Digital Independence

    What's happening in Germany this month might result in quicker adoption of Free software

11. Spanish Version of the Free Software Foundation's Book "Introduction to the Command Line"

    The "GNU Press Shop [is] temporarily closed"

12. Dr. Andy Farnell Publishes Second Part of Series About Freedom Fighters (It Started With Richard Stallman)

    A few minutes ago Dr. Farnell published the second part

13. Things That Were Presumed Public Enemy #1 (or Foremost Threat)

    The world's most powerful military is now governed by clowns who don't know what the heck they're doing

14. Microsoft is Admitting That It Has No Viable Business Model, Starting to Experiment

    Microsoft's proprietary spyware with ads cannot really compete with Calligra and LibreOffice

15. Bluewashing: IBM Replaces Red Hat With IBM (Bobby Leibrock) at the Top

    Based on his education, Bobby is just some suit; he thinks of money, not tech

16. Links 25/02/2025: Mass Layoffs at Starbucks, Kaspersky Banned on Australian Government Systems

    Links for the day

17. Links 25/02/2025: Strawberry Lemonade, Introducing Fiss, and YouTube Acting Aggressive

    Links for the day

18. UK: Twitter Falls to Lowest Traffic Levels in 5 Years (Start of Lockdowns), Down From More Than 37% to Only 6.5%

    Months ago Twitter (aka "X") was blasted by the British government for inciting right-wing violence

19. Confirmed: IBM Layoffs Will Strike Consulting Quite Hard

    the flagging of staff is a way to signal to them it's time to go or get the boot

20. Sami Tikkanen Explains What Happened to Computer Science Education in Finland and Elsewhere

    The 'broligarchs', a collective which typically created anything of their own, do not want the general population to possess skills that let it be anything other than passive consumers

21. Over at Tux Machines...

    GNU/Linux news for the past day

22. IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 24, 2025

    IRC logs for Monday, February 24, 2025

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